on the. emissions from. coal. breaking news this hour japan a warns of another possible explosion i believe pushing much nuclear plant as the government doesn't rule out a potential meltdown meanwhile radiation levels are on the rise now exceeding up to four hundred times the norm in the song areas. it certainly isn't a global level of violence that would normally marriage intervention that's something western states paint a different picture of the situation in libya calling for a no fly zone and seeking a possible military intervention believe that's to get the real situation in the country. and lifting the reset to new heights the u.s.

vice president visits moscow backing the bid for russia's world trade organization membership. coming to you live from our studios in moscow you're watching our teeth thanks for joining us well we begin with breaking news from japan aware of fish oils are now warning of new threats it seems there is another risk of an explosion at the fukushima power plant but the government claims it can withstand the glass like the first reactor did on saturday well japanese officials are also saying that the second reactor in fukushima could be experiencing a partial meltdown meanwhile radiation has increased to four hundred fold in the region of miyagi which lies dozens of kilometers further north well it's not. we

are at the moment if the radiation came from the local nuclear plant or drifted up from the facility in fukushima following saturday's explosion the government claims the radioactivity rubi so far there's not a pose a threat to human health but having said that the number of people admitted to hospital suffering exposure is said to be rising amid a series of aftershocks continue to rock the country bennett has the latest from tokyo. actually the city is still shaken near being a number of aftershocks just this morning a good one the last one about twenty minutes ago the whole room was shaking as i walked downstairs the line of things was shaking and it's very hard to actually walk in a straight line you're swaying and enjoying a night there and couple of aftershocks so strong in fact that you work me up and i could actually hear the room creaking and things are falling from the roof outside so the city is still experiencing aftershocks none that are actually inflicting damage on the city an hour and from what i've seen that this is very little surface

damage here but the transport infrastructure is definitely still suffering when trying to arrange transport now to sendai for the epicenter. whether that earthquake hit me days ago. and all the trains none of the trains going to the north of the country they're not working and they're still very unsure of what actual transport links they can run with all these aftershocks still happening so even as far away as tokyo still suffering the after effects local authorities fear that a number of the people that have been affected by the radiation it is spilled out into the atmosphere actually rise to one hundred sixty is they actually now analyze the exposure of the people who have been evacuated from the area around the fukushima number one power plant where there is a number of reactors are still on high alert yesterday one of the reactors exploded and thought forces are playing down the fears of nuclear meltdown however they are still on high there are

a number of other reactors at that the regime another one plant and number two now because the pressure is still very very high inside a number of the reactors and they having to really let outs dana and obviously in doing so radiation to them which is building to the radiation in the atmosphere and also that cuchulainn system actually on one of the reactors of that second plant was knocked out again this morning and with the other plant with the other reactors oscar. function it's not working they're actually using something see which are even around reactive to try and cool it's move two hundred thousand people handing out. these people coming out of those affected areas because that's what's used to treat the radiation explosion. well to discuss the latest developments we're joined live by professor sunni shia mushy stuff from nagasaki university professor your machines i know there are reports of radiation levels rising in another province in

the yagi reactor sam that is to the north of the could you comment on that is the radiation coming from the focus she might plant near me and i'll go for good humor deliberate fraud under a minute or so this is not for the human body so far ok well we are being told that there is a threat of a new explosion but the government has already organized massive evacuation plans although they're saying they can still contain the situation can you just tell us how bad is the situation at the fukushima plant in reality it's the only we're not still dangerous conditions because japan is going into. a container of the new world so now to the east side of the uk so this is a problem but after those few this twenty kilometers away for well it is very low

so far the people who are it is very safe ok let's go back to us are the radiation levels the four hundred times normal just how bad is that what is the effect of four hundred times the normal. this is the important thing is the unique to our livers of four hundred one means the list the one who is not part of us so far for us so very important is. the truth of the original liver is a very very low ok we're still on that topic you're saying that this is still not harmful what level is it going to be harmful i think the more the one hundred media reports may be hard for us but for the leaders of the most control this one little part or is very very serious ok so you're saying it's still safe at the moment but

if radiation does spread throughout the country how bad are the consequences going to be compared to the general reactions with humor is a completely different under controlled by comment so for people who are designing early years they don't need the warrior part of the war. but how house or will the radiation be spreading to other parts of the country are we just talking about wind direction here oh yeah those are very also important factors but the thought of a man. he was relieved why there's a very low. so far we don't need to warn you about. the reports that we're getting the government saying that there might be a part of the exposure that it's possible but how likely is it do you think that an explosion will actually happen at the reactor itself. will explode it's a very go to court questions but i'm not a specialist. i'm an adult that i cannot comment on this point but

possibly i'm sure the very law. ok well thank you very much for your insight there professor yamashita from my guest saki university thank you very much. now russia is closely monitoring the radiation on its territory nearest to japan well moscow also says it is ready to help tokyo but russia having vast experience in dealing with both natural and manmade disasters. explains. prime minister putin has russia is ready to send few undoubled gas supplies to japan of course energy's very much needed in the shattered country right now as it has lost a lot over its resources electricity is down in many parts of japan as well forty two units of hardware including seven jets are ready to fly to japan together with two hundred doctors and rescuers russia isn't on forty five nations world's voice

on stands by to send its help to japan however so far japan has accepted help from six countries only and those are united states great britain and germany new zealand as trail here and south korea meanwhile in the russian capital people are bringing flowers do the japanese embassy laying them by the embassies rules and the country's authorities are of course looking eastwards as well but we need to continue monitoring the situation in the russian far east as closely as possible i just talked to the local authorities in the region a situation. both from the point of view of people's housing and radioactivity. the situation must be closely monitored on a gracious right now the radiation level of russia's far east is normal and other countries atomic energy agency has assured that there is no danger for russia in this in the worst case scenario emission of radioactive particles they're not going to reach russia sure is one of the reasons for that is because the air flows around

the globe move from west to east as from north to south so if you look at the map in the worst case scenario there are going to be carried into the pacific ocean but having said that russia does unfortunately have a very sad experience of dealing with the consequences of a nuclear disaster intern noble back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six so perhaps that experience could be over to japan. well our correspondents in ukraine alexei had a show of skin looks at the similarities of the sheer noble disaster that's what's happening right now in japan. to this white smoke coming from the reactor building is the only ovie resemblance which we can see between the two incidents twenty five years ago chernobyl and at the fukushima plant now days that's where the similarities and the situations are basically different simply because what caused the what caused them you know the the fallout internal was caused by

a massive human error what is happening now in japan is of course the result of a natural disaster the earthquake happened which happened on friday and the other big difference and this is a very significant difference between the two events is how the government has been responding to the to the events obviously twenty five years ago the government of the soviet government kept most of the information secret from the general population in russia as well as from the rest of the world and went on a massive secret complaint to just safeguard this information and this was this is something which we cannot see today because the japanese government even though we have conflicting reports coming from the islands off what's happening there and we have no certainty of what caused this loss still the japanese government ordered the evacuation of people from the surrounding areas the

fukushima region this didn't happen twenty five years ago when fifty four thousand residents of the town of pre-treat next to the chernobyl power plants were kept in the town for more than twenty four hours and this of course caused some damage to them and people were subjected to a great deal of radioactive threat coming from the open reactor spare no effort in getting the job done. on this typical motto for construction projects in the soviet union also applied to the chernobyl nuclear power plant when construction kicked off in the nine hundred seventy s. it was intended to be a dream project for soviet ukraine. and the birth rate in prepared was higher than all of ukraine people were given homes and there was a great demand for a workforce in general so everyone worked and lighted there but this happy existence came to an abrupt end on april the twenty six nine hundred eighty six

with the explosion of the reactor at the power station the very same ato use for building the plants there are no effort was known to be used in the clear up of the world's worst ever manmade nuclear disasters a blazing reactor was bombarded with sand and lead measures which at first seemed driven which were later deemed highly effective by the international atomic energy agency this action helped to contain the radiation and enable construction of the circle for good a structure built around the reactor to seal it off for several months after the attacks to feed the lessons of chernobyl have been learned by experts worldwide since the catastrophe and will have been of assistance to those battling the latest serious nuclear accident in japan threatening contamination with large numbers of people being evacuated because of the radiation threat something which didn't happen twenty five years ago in soviet your crane the chernobyl fallout was caused by a massive human error mistakes made by the authorities in the first hours after the

blast also cost many lives but the events of twenty five years ago and what is now silver in ukraine proved to be an invaluable lesson for mankind so let's see russia see reporting from kiev ukraine. and anti nuclear expert dr hall says although each are noble type is asked for is unlikely to happen in japan it contaminates. area from the fukushima plant will grow. it seems a horrible irony that the japanese who were the first attacked with a nuclear weapons would now also suffer from the hands of nuclear energy and we hope that it won't be like chernobyl in terms of how wide it will be spread because if it was an explosion coming out of containment dome then it won't go as high as it did by with chernobyl and so it won't spread so far but that means that the radiation will be a lot more intense in the actual area so they're evacuating at the moment but it's

really not enough because the area is much larger that we're talking about that will be contaminated christopher assignments an associate professor at a talker university says the radiation levels around fukushima are high and children may suffer the most from exposure. people are being advised to stay in their homes and not drink water turn off their air conditioners. it sounds like the government is preparing people for a significant nuclear event relation to the city was approximately one thousand micro secrets and that is. as much really a sin as a human body should absorb in one year and that's being released every hour so it seems like the radiation levels in the vicinity of the reactor are quite high the biological effects will depend on a number of factors of course the secret is

a measure iow a logical impact rather than. just nuclear energy so for example if you are a larger person you have a larger body mass absorbing that same amount of radiation that suggests that the most vulnerable people will be children and the elderly people with a smaller body mass or a more weaker body. i believe that measure of one thousand my perceiver it's was quite close to the reactor so obviously the main concern is for emergency workers firefighters and military in the area people further away are probably not at superior risk of course the the radiation is carried by particles in the air but diminishes geometrically this turns. you stay with r t throughout the day as you keep you abreast of all the latest developments in the japan. let's start our attention to

a libya now the arab league has backed the idea of a no fly zone over the country after an emergency summit and member states agreed to ask the u.n. security council to impose the restriction suggested by the u.k. and france as artie's policy of reports the actual situation of their own libya is far from the way it's presented. this the international stage of the planets and of science the bargaining to complete out of the market. was really an r. g.'s kidless trade and many of the africans used to work here as fled the country and the argument that look here is on the brink of civil war so foreign intervention is needed to bring a little hundred. people but that's not a huge. it certainly isn't a global level of. merit intervention does he has offered access to foreign media but only if the camera lives state well away from any of the opposition but

it's a similar picture in opposition strongholds that robert i'm pretty it was forced to close the bin ghazi office of paper because pressure from rebels you have to print the version off it's all nothing. new since. it is and then given that we. think and what they believe and many gadhafi supporters fear that while he may be winning the war with the rebels he's used that information war back here in chance or else actually with google bonus issues puzzled and angry by reports that mr wiesel shooting people in the town is normal or strong and you get. the me right. now on what you know more lives and light. on the streets.

we. get. this. there are events unfolding right now in ivory coast where there is also conflict an armed conflict between rebels and the government but nobody seems to be thinking about it it's only because fashionable attention is focused on libya the only reason is that with libya's bad for your oil. there was broccoli just. feet. away it's a. chance. antiwar columnist and historian abortion of knowledge from washington d.c. believes that there is absolutely no justification for anyone it's a novel in libya's affairs this is reminding me every day more of bosnia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. when a clear cut case for intervention couldn't be made in the public was not very much in

a mood for war so one had to be sort of created gradually by gradual involvement and it started with the you know humanitarian of the agents and observers and scouting missions and it continued through the north fly zone and it ended up being full blown war several years later right now i mean walking the the responsibility to protect doctrine is basically going to make it obvious to the entire world that this is a license to meddle doctrine there is absolutely normal. possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya there's just nothing in their charters or just gives nothing that would justify this. well later this hour our team talks to russia's envoys and they talk to me through their goals it is as certain a country as are pushing to get involved in libya because they are reliant on its oil resources. but. i believe i think if libya were just a banana growing country there wouldn't be so much interest in his domestic

situation including in the humanitarian spear of course libya is a big enough energy supplier to europe certain countries like italy for example are heavily dependent on libyan deliveries others are not so much dependent but either way libya's share is considerable we know that nato for example puts energy security matters at the top of its main agenda for this reason i think that this factor has a most direct bearing on the speed of the west decision making regarding libya. of the u.s. vice president was in high spirits when he arrived on a two day visit to moscow earlier this week his main goal was to encourage the continued reset between the two countries while libya understandably made it into the discussions the majority of the visit was focused on a boosting trade the talks may have been a serious issues but the mood was certainly light and we joked with joe biden that he hopes the u.s. vice president won't be working on russia's bid for w membership all the way to be

every his career the russian leader was promised that washington is doing all it can to make the accession happen democratic strategist chris look at the u.s. says the u.s. needs russia's support of this visit highlights that. i think that the existing relations are on a track moving forward no matter what the little disruptions are and i think that's very important and i think that's part of what biden strip is all about and then the obama's trip will be all about which is that even if we have set backs along the way the message has to be very clear to the russian people into the american people that russia in the united states now have more in common than we do that separates us we need that russia to be part of the w t o we need a free trade with russia i think that that message is being sent to anything the united states does it will clearly take into account how the russian government the russian leadership feels about things and i'm sure that vice president biden is

making that very clear to. the russian leader should do that in the whatever we do in libya we're going to try to make sure that we cooperate with you and we're not in conflict with you the other thing of course is that we're coming up to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven i don't think it's lost on the american people that the russian people have been victimized by islamic terrorists and we share that in common and i think the metaphor for that is this idea of a missile defense although it's aimed at states like iran and others i think that it's a symbol that we stand united against terrorists and that's another thing so while we might disagree on things like libya i think going forward the relationship moves forward no matter what the little setbacks might be. well charles a corruption a political expert from the u.s. council on foreign relations says russia and the u.s. are evolving and their relationship is changing and i'm passing more issues and i think in many respects what we're seeing here is the closing of phase one and the

opening of phase two of the so-called reset phase one was all about security and high politics it was about the new start treaty missile defense iran afghanistan and that really came to a close when the russian parliament and the u.s. senate ratified start now i think what we're looking at is more societal contact cross investment that crosses the borders people traveling more between the two countries trying to build the confidence that the vice president just talked to security is obviously going to be there both in north africa and trying to get us russian cooperation on missile defense but i think we're now seeing the relationship broaden out in deeper and its social root. well let's get more and other international news making headlines this hour the board school ame up to six people have been killed and hundreds injured in violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in yemen of the authorities stormed a makeshift camp of thousands of demonstrators in the capital they use live bullets

tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds of protesters responded with a hail of rocks and live ammunition in the demonstrators have been camping in the area for weeks demanding the end of president ali abdullah saleh is thirty two year rule. or if it were a bus accident in new york has claimed the lives of fifteen people and seriously injured another ten the coach was carrying at least thirty one passengers when it flipped over slid on its side and hit a pole well that pulls lies the bus and half along the windows tearing the roof top off of the vehicle the driver told investigators he swerved to avoid a tractor trailer a witnesses claim the bus have been traveling at high speed the vehicle was returning from a casino outside the city and earlier this week russia's republic of chechnya hosted an all star match widely seen as a major step forward for the region and team of brazilian football veterans arrived

for a charity game against a team captain by chechen leader. tom barton explores how a former arena for military conflict is leaving its bloody past behind and showing a new side all thanks to sports. it must rank as one of the more curious fixtures in football history but a press conference late the night before chechen is leader ramzan kadyrov spoke of his excitement at the arrival of the opposition it's a real holiday for laughs fans who have been waiting for this event for such a long time it's an exciting day and i know that many of those who left the republic years ago coming back to enjoy the match but many reporters there doubted a team of brazilian veterans who've really come to play in chechnya the next day he was greeted at the airport by a sea shepherd bara style to tear off places shouting supporters. walking into this cult like scene in the brazilian team looking a little bit mused the chechens however were static. i can't believe this is

happening we couldn't even dream of an event like these happening before i've come to grozny especially for this much and i think it will raise the sad memories of the past and everything will be great. five years ago this match would have been unthinkable and it was in ruins up its military campaigns from the mid ninety's ninety's following an insurgency it was in this very stadium that ramzan kadyrov father was blown up a decade before the area is still subject to high levels of security against the threat of terrorism as it moves towards normality after years of conflict since which cross any has come a long way i think a good things change every day we see new facilities being built and people understand that they have to forget the past and move on come kickoff time the stadium was bursting see results scored an easy first goal followed by repeated attempts by the chechens to get one back. who knows what was said in the changing

room but the dear of that made sure he was the center of attention. despite missing two penalties he eventually managed to get himself in the school should the game ended six four to brazil. it was a very disappointing score but what can we do our game is again we want to win but we lost the brazilian sunshine again because ian team is the strongest in the world today because they were came to stress they were only charity their visit saw chechen make world headlines again but this time the sport and. it'll take more than just a football must change the structure of war on terrorism away from chechnya and the north caucasus but for now discourage a friendly competition everyone here agrees it's a step or kick in the right direction tom watson ought to chechnya. all be back with a recap of our top stories in just a moment to stay with us on r.t.

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